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Nuclear fission has been used in nuclear bombs and is currently being used in every nuclear power plant on the earth.

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How many years has nuclear fission been used?

About seventy years.


Which one of these two process is still used today Nuclear Fission or Fusion?

Fission. Fusion has never been used on Earth, except for nuclear weapon tests.


What element is used in nuclear fission and is radioactive but is not uranium?

We can use plutonium in nuclear fission devices.


Why nuclear fission better?

Nuclear fission is now commercially available in nuclear fission reactors since the fifties of last century. Nuclear Fusion is still under R&D. Nuclear fission reactors are clean energy source.


Is nuclear fission only used to create atomic bombs?

No, nuclear fission operates all nuclear reactors. If they are power plant reactors it is used to generate electricity.


Can nuclear fission be used anywhere in the world?

yes on condition of the availability of the necessary nuclear fission device (nuclear reactors or critical assemblies).


What does the future hold with nuclear fission?

nuclear fission will not be popular because it hasn't ever been popular and barley anyone has ever heard of it. it will be banned because it is not used responsibly. ~the scientist bill nie :)


Where do you get nuclear fission?

You get nuclear fission in:nuclear fission reactorsatomic fission bombs


What particle is used to start nuclear fission?

In actuality, a spontaneous fission event begins a nuclear chain reaction. It kick starts a nuclear chain reaction. And a neutron from that fission will initiate another fission to continue and rev up that nuclear chain reaction.


What type of nuclear reaction are used in nuclear power plants?

fission


What can nuclear fission be used for?

Producing electricity


Fission is used in the production of?

nuclear energy